The Grumbleberry Pie Man

Just a little story I wrote with my ex-girlfriend at her request about 8 months ago

Once upon a Tyne ...

 

In a village far far from the noisy underground pipes..

 

There lived a cratchety old ferret and a sweet old blueberry pie with a face.

This pie ...

Was his wife

 

This story is the story ...

Of that pie.

ZOE: Did he eat her, Richie?

 

Well, one grey evening when two stars poked nosily through the sad clouds, and fog that matched the ferret man in grumpiness ..

and the pipes were extra extra noisy due to an overnight shift of three men banging away in hopes of black gold

this ...is the story of those men.

 

ZOE: but what about the pie Richie?

 

The three men; Curly, Burly, and Steve

were their names but they have no relevance in this story…YET.

anyway, the pie lady (Sara) .. she politely tapped her husband's shoulder and asked him to pass her a blanket .. she was cold

and pie's do get cold

 

Ferret man replied "What do I look like? a wheelbarrow/barrel!?"

Sara got very frightened by this and she fell off her side of the bed and fell and fell and fell and she landed splat on the ground of their mud house ...

 

She brushed herself off and slowly stood up covered in blueberry stain .. "what is all the commotion!?" shrieked old man ferret ..he looked at her and blinked rapidly ... "you're not my wife"

"you're a .."

"a...woman!"

"why, strange, I now have a woman wife"

"I'm Sara" said Sara

"O of course you are, love " said Ferret smiling for the first time in his life.

Then .. Curly, Burly and Steve came knocking at the door

 

 

"I heard you had pie" they mumbled together

"We did .. but I'm pleased to say she's a human now" said old man ferret

"can we eat her?"

Curly bashed Steve on the head.

"you don't eat people, Steve"

ZOE: *giggles* I liked that story.

 

The End.